"This book analyses the changes in approaches, strategies and schemes for tribal development in India over the various Five-Year Plan periods. Special attention has been paid to the problems and achievements of tribal development programmes and administrative arrangements in Indias Central Tribal Belt (CTB) comprising the states of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan that contains nearly three-fourths of the countrys tribal population. Tracing the story from Jawaharlal Nehrus Panchsheel for the tribals, to the Dhebar Commission (1961), Task Force under L.P. Vidyarthi (1974), the launching of Tribal Sub-Plan during Fifth Plan and on to the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, this study in policy and administration looks at issues of literacy and education, health and nutrition, lack of infrastructure, income and employment, displacement and growing extremism amongst the tribals of the CTB. Future